Facebook has gone from a start up to a social network with over 3.12 billion users and Twitter has over 611 million active users. In a short period of time, through social media, people have found a new voice, a new way to connect. In today’s Gospel (Matthew 18:15-20), we learn that 2,000 years ago Jesus also told us that there is power in numbers.
Who do you think Jesus is? As small children we are told that Jesus is the Son of God, and we accept it readily. When we are children God is a kindly father figure who lives in Heaven and listens to our night prayers. When we are small, Jesus is the baby we see in the Christmas Nativity scene. When we are a little older,
Just when we thought that Jesus’ love was all embracing and all compassionate, he shocks us by behaving in a way that can only be described as harsh and unfeeling. In today’s gospel Jesus is approached by a Canaanite woman, who pesters him to cure her daughter. ‘Canaanite’ was the name given to the older inhabitants of Israel who were dispossessed as unclean by Jesus’
To the amazement of his friends, Peter climbed over the side of the boat. Before his feet even touched the water, he knew that it was really Jesus out there waiting for him. Afterwards he was never able to describe what it was like to walk on water, and he needed the other disciples to confirm for him that it really had happened. He remembered
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure buried in a field; which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.” “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls. When he finds a pearl of great price, he goes and sells all he has and buys it.” In
Jesus compares the Kingdom of Heaven to a field in which the master has sown good seed. In the night, an enemy comes and plants weeds, so when the crop grows it is a mixture of wheat and weed. The servants’ instinct is to pull the weeds out, but the master demands that the bad grow alongside the good … he himself will sort the
